How to Use gerbil in a Sentence

gerbil

noun

• Some have snakes, or gerbils, or rabbits.
  — Bailey Allen, Cape Cod Times, 7 Mar. 2026
• Do not use the trash can in the kitchen, as there is a huge problem with mice, rats, and gerbils.
  — Julia Young, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2023
• Whether tiny gerbil or huge capybara, rodents eat with the same special teeth.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 21 Aug. 2012
• The backyard is full of the bones of our pets, mostly cats, but some gerbils, too, and even one guinea pig.
  — Beth Thames | [email protected], al.com, 26 June 2019
• Over the years, the dye has been tested in mice, rats, gerbils, pigs, beagles and humans.
  — Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2025
• And no, wild gerbils aren’t suddenly running around the place.
  — Caleb Harris, Austin American-Statesman, 25 Jan. 2024
• The next year, the paperback showed a girl running in the grass with zero gerbils.
  — Ellen Gamerman, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2018
• People bring their iguanas, cats, dogs, gerbils, and hamsters.
  — Joanna Solotaroff, Vogue, 4 Dec. 2024
• Of course these cardio benefits are just for dogs -- not cats, horses, gerbils and the like.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 20 Feb. 2020
• One project was a human-size gerbil feeder and another a life-size origami horse.
  — Lily Hautau, CNN Money, 3 May 2026
• The gerbil isn’t wild, at least when kept in a container in the United States.
  — Jeff McMahon, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2021
• The one who really makes the comparison to gerbils valid is the 5-year-old.
  — Caleb Harris, Austin American-Statesman, 25 Jan. 2024
• One staffer said there were more than 30 animals, including cats, gerbils and fish.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Oct. 2023
• For small animals such as gerbils or chinchillas, co-sleeping isn’t safe due to their size, potty habits, and tendency to chew.
  — Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025
• In the second picture, the mother-son duo both looked surprised as Deveraux held a gerbil in his hand.
  — Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
• Some have disputed this evidence, as the grave also contained the bones of a gerbil-like rodent that may have hauled in the plants itself.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 9 Apr. 2018
• The gerbil gallery is, of course, a bit too petite to accommodate in-person human visitors.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Apr. 2020
• Only two instances of non-compliance have occurred in the past four years, one involving a gerbil and one involving a bat.
  — Karen Farkas, cleveland.com, 22 Aug. 2017
• London’s parents limited her to gerbils and hamsters as pets because of her allergies.
  — Amy Sutherland, BostonGlobe.com, 16 May 2018
• Tofu, a gerbil who lives in Bay Village with owner Anna Evans.
  — cleveland, 8 May 2020
• At the center of my experiment was one Hubert Lee, a gerbil named in part after my sister’s boyfriend at the time.
  — Debra Hale-Shelton, Arkansas Online, 25 Oct. 2020
• Gove estimates the shelter started with about 40 animals and now, a few days later, it's left with six cats, four guinea pigs and two gerbils.
  — Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN, 18 Mar. 2020
• For decades, Kevin had felt like a gerbil stuck on a wheel chasing achievement, but the Artemis crash had forced him to stop and look up and take a raw assessment.
  — Longreads, 7 Mar. 2018
• The disease is permanently present in colonies of social, burrowing rodents such as marmots or gerbils.
  — Kyle Harper, Smithsonian, 19 Dec. 2017
• Not only would the food in fridges and cabinets fall victim to their nightly raids, they could never be trusted around a gerbil or bird cage—and god forbid there’s a fish tank around.
  — Shoshi Parks, Popular Science, 10 June 2026
• Whatever the idea, controversial or not, pro- or anti-gerbil, no group can force a lawmaker to introduce a bill.
  — Rachel Osier Lindley, star-telegram.com, 27 Apr. 2017
• Other small mammals like ferrets, degus, sugar gliders, chinchillas, gerbils, hamsters, guinea pigs, rats and mice are all allowed as pets.
  — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 7 Apr. 2026
• To try to answer that question, a team of German bioengineers surgically installed coiled strips of optical fibers in the ears of deaf gerbils.
  — Justin Chen, STAT, 11 July 2018
• Besides dogs and cats, animals allowed inside are birds, ferrets, gerbils, guinea pigs, hamsters, mice, rats and rabbits under 10 pounds.
  — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 31 May 2024
• At 231 Mysterium Way, the pizza is fatal, the bus is powered by gerbils and the dean of students is a hermit crab.
  — Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 12 Feb. 2024